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Jerusalem · 971,800 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 19:06

Mainly clear
23°
Mainly clear
Feels like 23°C
Wind
23 km/h
Gusts
49 km/h
Humidity
38 %
Pressure
1015 hPa
Clouds
28 %
Storm
No
Rise 05:52 Set 16:52 Day 10 h 59 min UV 4 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Mainly clear
Mainly clear
16°15°
Feels like 16°
Wind ↑ W 11 km/h
Gusts 31 km/h
Humidity 59 %
20:00
Clear sky
16°
WSW 7
23:00
Mainly clear
15°
W 11

Jerusalem forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

≈ A week close to the usual temperatures
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
11°15°20°24°28°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed25°16°Thu 29 Oct: max 23° · min 15° · normal 20.5°Fri 30 Oct: max 20° · min 14° · normal 20.3°Sat 31 Oct: max 23° · min 13° · normal 20.1°Sun 1 Nov: max 23° · min 14° · normal 20.1°Mon 2 Nov: max 26° · min 16° · normal 19.9°Tue 3 Nov: max 26° · min 17° · normal 19.7°Wed 4 Nov: max 25° · min 16° · normal 19.5°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu11°20°28°26°13°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Jerusalem climate: what a normal year looks like

A normal year brings roughly 350 mm of rain — less than 93% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

The wet season is concentrated from December to February, which brings 59% of the annual total; January by itself averages 80 mm.

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from June to September; the typical peak is 34 °C in August.

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 34 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 7 °C.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 24 °C, 5 °C cooler than a normal October (29 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan15 °C7 °C80 mm
Feb16 °C8 °C69 mm
Mar19 °C10 °C48 mm
Apr24 °C13 °C20 mm
May29 °C17 °C10 mm
Jun32 °C19 °C2 mm
Jul34 °C21 °C1 mm
Aug34 °C22 °C1 mm
Sep32 °C20 °C3 mm
Oct29 °C18 °C21 mm
Nov22 °C13 °C40 mm
Dec17 °C9 °C57 mm
Whole year25 °C15 °C350 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 31.77° N, 35.22° E, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Jerusalem: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.517µg/m³
PM1039µg/m³
O₃61µg/m³
NO₂10µg/m³
SO₂7µg/m³

Pollen · dominant: Grass

AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassLow
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Jerusalem

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Jerusalem, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers Jerusalem yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Jerusalem

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 03:11 Set 18:32
Fri 30/10 79%
Sat 31/10 69%
Sun 1/11 59%
Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter
Tue 3/11 38%
Wed 4/11 28%
Thu 5/11 19%
Fri 6/11 12%
Sat 7/11 6%
Sun 8/11 2%
Mon 9/11 0%
Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Asia/Jerusalem); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Jerusalem

Curious about the weather in Jerusalem on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Jerusalem weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Jerusalem, Jerusalem: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “mainly clear”, it is 23 °C (feels like 23 °C) and the wind blows at 23 km/h.

Expected range today: 15 °C to 23 °C and a dry sky. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

Jerusalem weather data for developers

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations